Family Photos > My new back yard > The Stroud Reserve

By far and away, the most dominate habitat type is open agricultural lands. Some of the lands here are still under cultivation. These lands are leased to a farmer in cooperation with the Stroud Water Research Center to study how agriculture can best be done to improve water quality. These lands attract birds like Horned Lark, Red-winged Blackbird and Bobolink. Bobolinks perhaps the coolest bird that occurs here. Their vocalization is best described as something that R2D2 would say. Really, go check them out. You will be amazed.